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Fair point. I inserted a snippet I did not have the provinence for, and I did not see the full import. Mea culpa. However, there seems to be more going on within that snippet than "We will study glacier change impacts with particular s
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Wow, what a fantastic addition of context to my dubious out-of-context snippet! Thank you for the link. For all the philosophy of science I have read, the most unexpectedly revealing book I have seen was by a specialist in the sociology of
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This is a follow-up article, after one providing a historically-well-informed look based in Soviet experiences. I don't know if the following is real, but I clipped it the other day from an online comment: “Glaciers, Gender & Scien
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Calling in the microagression response team. Challenging someone's spelling is "Where are you from" with extra steps.
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One impressive thing: the speed of emergence through a visible-soft-power phase to a visible-hard-power phase.
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Worth the read if you care at all for details in relation to green technologies. > In his 1969 book about the early days of the helium industry, Mines employee Clifford Stebel admits that the hydrogen should not have exploded in this sce
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> don't ask to ask So it is easier to ask for forgiveness after asking, than it is to ask for permission in advance to ask? Asking for a friend.
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> idiomatic Absolutely. If one person does their best work and is still frustrated after trying dozens of options, it is fair for them to be scratching their head and saying, "This shouldn't be happening." The article itse
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Fun article. The approach to n^2. > The result, by Josh Alman, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University, and Virginia Vassilevska Williams of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shaves about one-hundred-thousandth off the e
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From the OP> A faulty data cable between the James Webb Space Telescope and launch pad equipment at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, caused the big observatory's latest launch delay, European Space Agency (ESA) and
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> “A restlessness has seized hold of many of us,” wrote the American author Rebecca Solnit, “a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing” However, as the article testifies, there is still pleasure (includi
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> When the researchers used an antibody to neutralize fabkin in mice, the animals did not develop diabetes. When the antibody was given to obese, diabetic mice, they reverted to a healthy state.
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My early thought was that, at the very least, Poynting Vectors deserve a video but Transmission Lines also deserve a video. Here's a problem I recall from Jackson which might (or might not) provide a missing link: Given two parallel
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by a9h74j 5y ago
Good point; see my late edit directly above. Thanks for adding the link.
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Late edit: 1) bold and capitalize 'allegedly' above; 2) in the response linked in a comment below, on p.2 lines 7-8, Meta claims the [fact check] labels constitute protected opinion; 3) it could easily be a libel non-case, espec
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This will be some snark in this comment, but against my own country and not you and yours. I invite a cross-cultural comment on competence. Are the partisan fact-checkers in Spain at least competent enough to write grammatical, parsable sen
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This title seemed clever enough after the San Francisco mayor's announcement yesterday: Study shows that defunding the police increases police funding.
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Appropriate indignation and demand on BMJ's part. Meanwhile, in the Stossel libel case, Facebook's lawyers allegedly 'claim that Facebook’s “fact-checks” are merely “opinion” and therefore immune from defamation.'
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From what I recall from seeing mortality curves vs BMI, away from the expected minimum the curve rises much faster for low BMI than high BMI. Makes one think. In a high-self-control-valuing society, "heavy" is perhaps seen as lack
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How many are not anti-vax in general, but anti-spike? Isn't the safety of a vaccine supposed to be assumed controversial for a few years, under normal circumstances?
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I've seen it suggested that people tend to be level in personal growth while advancing in career growth, or level in career growth while advancing in personal growth, either more or less deliberately.
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> how conventional & dogmatic companies are Seems to invite a deep dive into the history of Gantt charts or their use.
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You might also be familiar with the Abraham Lincoln quote: If I had four hours to chop down a tree I would spend three hours sharpening the ax.
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The new WFS trend -- Work From Shower.
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Semi-related: IIRC, Hershey vector fonts were used in HP Basic, as for HP plotters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts
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About 10-15 years ago the European Space Agency was advertising that philosophy. IIRC they contrasted perfectionism (or zero risk) and slow learning against smaller experiments and faster learning. There was also some third term contrasted,
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IIRC there is such a thing as a clearance diagram which locomotives and rolling stock will be required to meet. I don't know how these are managed. The diagrams can include effects of track curvature in tunnels, etc. From the article
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1950s commercial style: 'Cause after sitting though a nuclear explosion, you just wanna open a nice cold Budweiser.
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A recent post on HN mentioned use of a Cloudfare tunnel. Apparently that allows for self-hosting behind a router with no incoming ports needing to be opened. https://eevans.co/blog/garage/
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I suggest The Ego Tunnel by Metzinger. The arguments and demonstrations are far better than merely hand-wavy and circular.

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